Sara, " I ask finally, "what do you want from me?"" I want to look at you and remember what it used to be like, " she says thickly. "I want to go back, Brian. I want you to take me back." But she is not the woman I used to know, the woman who traveled a countryside counting prairie dog holes, who read aloud the classifieds of lonely cowboys seeking women and told me, in the darkest crease of the night, that she would love me until the moon lost its footing in the sky. To be fair, I am not the same man. The one who listened. The one who believed her. Jodi Picoult
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This quote speaks volumes about how we can change and the fact that we cannot go back and change the past. The first sentence of this quote says: “Sara,” I ask finally, “what do you want from me?” The second sentence is: “I want to look at you and remember what it used to be like.” What does this mean? It means that we can never go back into the past and redo something that happened in the past. We can only learn from our mistakes and move on.

Source: My Sisters Keeper

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